Gents ,
just to interupt,have been following this with some interest, and it does make compelling reading,many thanks for sharing this.

Regards

Lee :D

Thanks Don
Off to buy some straws now :D:D

Any reason you are going with a round shape Don?

My home-mades are all rectangular 'boxes' and just push-on the flash head...I use cardboard from a cornflakes box, cut to the length I want (to vary the size of beam) and the width to fit over the flash head. I cover it all with gaffer tape. The attached set-up shot show two in use - one has a lavender gel in a high tech holder...

For gridded snoots, I use black bar straws, although I have been meaning to try out the coloured straws to see how it colours the light.

The bare snoots fold flat, so take up no room in my bag. I have been meaning to glue together a bunch of short straws that would slide inside the end of a bare snoot...hopefully that should still control the light spill whatever the length of snoot used.

Fewer straws so less cost in case it did not work Mark :D :D , not that I had really got round to the shape issue. One thought though is to see if attatching a filter ring to the end will allow for colour effect through using old photo filters. Although the party straws have a colour stripe I don't see any effect of them in the light.

Black straws .......... I have not seen those but quite logical to mimick proper honeycomb.

Thanks for posting your pic. I will study it in detail.

All the secrets of your brill pic are out now. :)

Don

Stop Press:

A Nikon SB-800 fits perfectly in a pringles tubes and... its foil lined. Now I just need to wait until my lady eats them all. Considering she is on Texas BBQ sauce flavour it shouldn't be long!

Watch this space....

Agreed, a brill pic revealed ;)

Thinking about it, it must be around the anniversary of the ringflash thread. :)

Don

I do like the idea of using old filters...hmmm...one of the smaller, cheap, square Cokin holders could be modified to fit nicely too...and it could probably take cut-up gels too...

A common thing in bars over here, red or black...so if you don't count the cost of beer, they are free :D

LOL :D

I am itching to get some straws and try out the shorter straws now...maybe a couple of days before I get time though.

Yes Don I think you're right, and about the same time as me thinking about getting the D80:D